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Bitter pepper is not the most popular plant in gardens. Apparently, our cuisine is not too acute, and the need for growing this spicy vegetable is limited to one or two bushes. And in vain, because in addition to the taste and benefits of the plant, there is also a […]
Dill has a well-known strong “kitchen” smell. And somehow it is hard to believe that the aroma of dill in ancient Greece competed with the aroma of roses. It was woven into wreaths, and the famous Greek poet Sappho sang of this plant in verse. In the Middle Ages in […]
Pumpkin is a widely cultivated melon, fodder, medicinal, and ornamental plant. In therapeutic and preventive food, baked, boiled, fried fruits (soup, porridge, pie fillings, juice, mashed potatoes, casseroles, stews, etc.) are used. For the purpose of treatment, seeds (an excellent anthelmintic), fruit pulp and stem are used, it has a […]
Coriander is a very ancient spicy plant, mentioned in the Bible, the Egyptian papyrus of Ebers, dated 5000 years ago. Coriandrum sativum is an annual herb with erect, branched stems 40-150 cm (1.3-4.9 feet) tall. The lower leaves are petiolate, pinnately dissected, with rounded, incised-toothed lobes, the upper sessile or […]
Watermelon-this kind so pleases us with its delicious fruits. Watermelon belongs to the Pumpkin family, genus citrus Forsk. The fruit (melon) — false polyspermous berry. Watermelon flowers are divided into female, male and andromonoecious. The bulk of the varieties-with andromonoecious, but there are those whose flowers on the plant are […]
Corn is an annual herbaceous plant with erect stems from 50 cm to 2 m (1.6-6.5 ft). The leaves are broad-lanceolate with a wavy edge. The flowers are bisexual: male – in spreading apical panicles, and female-in axillary thick cobs, wrapped in leaf-like sheaths from which hang numerous long filamentous […]
Carrots have been known to humans for more than 4,000 years. Even the ancient Greeks considered it sacred. At the court of Charlemagne, it was an honorable dish and was considered a delicacy until the XVI century, only in the XVII century, Europeans began to cultivate it everywhere. In Germany […]
The first month of autumn is coming to an end, and there is less and less time left to complete important gardening work. What do you need to do in the last week of September? Cleaning the kitchen-garden If you have planted cauliflower and broccoli in the garden, it’s time […]
Armoracia Rusticana is a perennial weed-forming plant with thick, fleshy roots and an erect, branched, flowering stem, 50-150 (1.6-4.9 feet) cm high, the basal leaves are very large, up to 80 cm (2.6 feet), oblong-oval; the lower stem leaves are pinnately spread, the middle oblong-lanceolate, the upper linear. The flowers […]
Lettuce is one of the most decorative plants that can decorate the garden from spring to autumn. Many varieties allow you to create dense decorative vegetable groups of mixborders, high beds, on lawns, bordering raised beds with curly, shaggy, flat and lacy leaves of a wide variety of shades. After […]